Astarbe Sagardo Naturala

Brewed by Astarbe Sagardoak
Style: Cider
Astigarraga, Guipúzcoa, Spain

Serve in Bowl, Flute, Lager glass

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Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow color with no head. Has a fruity yeasty slightly tart apple aroma. Sweetish yeasty tart apple and phenol flavor. Has a sweetish fruity yeasty apple finish.

(330ml bottle) Pours a lightly hazy yellow body with a few spare bubbles. Aroma of bubble gum, mustiness, apple, horseblanket, and medicinal. Flavor of apple, menthol, lemon, and plenty of funkiness.

Pale yellow. Apple aroma with hints of vinegar and horseblanket. Dry and acidy flavour. Tart and pleasant to drink.

Bottle from Monument in Concord, CA. Pours hazy orange with a few chunks - I like chunks. Nice sour apple skin aroma. Fairly sour and definitely astringent. It is not sweet. It’s right in there with a good saison or farmhouse ale. Aftertaste is pretty much apple skin with a little cooked apple. Very good cider.

Bottle (barrel 10; bottled April 29, 2005) from Healthy Spirits. Typical Spanish Cider nasty looking sediment at the bottle. Poured at the usual height. A minimal white head with a lasting ring over a hazed golden body. Aromas of lambic like acidity, funk, a bit of rubber cement, barnyard, wood and a huge amount of acid. Some complex floral and estery notes. Flavors are very sour! Tons of acid, heartburningly so. Throat burn. Lemon, floral notes. Again a sort of rubber, industrial flavor that sort of detracts from the overall experience. Floral and horsey a bit of pineapple acidity. Like a good sour ale. Thin body though. Medium to light carbonation.

bottle

nose -
must: foot & cheese. heavy
apple: skin, bitter, raw, green

flavor -
must: high
apple: dry, green, raw
acid: medium-high
bitterness: medium-high
other: bright, zesty, acidic with good carbonation out of the bottle.

Appearance
Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 4   Pale(1)->Dark(5) : 1   Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 1
Aroma
Intensity : 3  
Yeast : 2   Bread : 2   Hay: XX   Brett : XX   Floral: 3   Wood: 4   Leather: 2   Barnyard : 3   Medicine : 2   Phenols: XX   Cheese : XX   Vinous: 3  
Notes: Caramel : XX   Honey : XX   Applesauce: XX   Appleskin : 2 Pear : XX   Tropical FruitsXX  
Flavor
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 2 Juicy: 3   Sourness : 3   Bitterness: 1   Farmy : 3   Complex: XX   Length : XX
Palate
Light(1)->Full(5) : 2   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 2 Chewy: XX   Sharp: 2   Chalk : XX   Astringence : XX   Tea tannins : 2   Alcohol : XX
Comments: A pretty good example of a Basque sidra with juicy tartness, firm tannins and dry, sour palate.

bottle, thanks to bu11zeye, pours like cloudy lemonade, aroma of diesel and vinegar, has a flavor salty black olives and lemon peel, nice cider

Pours still with a hazy yellow/peach color, no head, carbonation or lacing. The nose is 50/50 tart and funky with sweet distant fresh fruit. The flavor is more tart with a very dry and dusty horse blanket character. Nice, I can picture a fine basque chick(a) pouring this from 4 feet high or something the way they do it in all the ciderias over there in spain.

(330ml bottled 4-29-05 thanks to bu11zeye) cloudy pale yellow. Nose is funky, bit acetone, farm, lemon, apple, vinegar and tartness. Taste of sour apple, a bit of vinegar and mild acetone, a bit old but holding up nicely. Chewable vitamin taste dominates the linger as well as some olive saltiness.